Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The media group Vocento announced today that it has presented an ERE (Redundancy Dismissal Procedure) that involved the dismissal of 234 of the 450 employees that exist in the daily newspaper ABC. The plan would affect over 80 employees in the editorial department and over 100 jobs in the printing division of the paper in addition to administrative posts. A spokesperson for Vocento said that the management is in discussion with the trade unions and employees about the least traumatic way possible of carrying out these cuts.
Eurofound (2009), Vocento-ABC, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 68551, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68551.